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While the Red Sox front office hasn’t made any huge splashes this offseason after chasing big-ticket items for much of the winter, winds of change are nonetheless blowing through the home clubhouse at Yawkey Way.
Last week’s signing of Kevin Youkilis to a four-year, $41 million extension with an option for a fifth season could keep him around through 2013, coupled with the six-year pact for Dustin Pedroia that could take him through 2016, have been nothing short of significant developments.
The right side of Boston’s infield, who are key cogs in Boston’s offensive machine, inked their deals and immediately ascended from up-and-coming ballplayers to franchise cornerstones.
“You get a little more time [in the big leagues], you start understanding that there’s young guys who need your help along the way,” Youkilis said of his budding role as team leader. “You have to be a good leader to [the younger] guys and help them along the way because it’s not an easy road or path.”
Setting an example requires leverage, clout and the mantle of leadership, and with a few strokes of the pen this winter, both Youkilis and Pedroia signed on for all of these things and more. They’re the poster boys for everything Boston has done letter perfect in their player-development system.
“Kevin and Dustin have both been held out by us internally as models, as model Red Sox, as what you want a Red Sox player to be,” Sox GM Theo Epstein said. “In our rookie development programs, we’ve probably mentioned Kevin and Dustin dozens and dozens of times … [when talking about] how to play the game, how to be a good teammate, different ways to get to the big leagues.
“We’ve cited Kevin’s patience and perseverance and his development path to the big leagues. And now with these contracts, it’s fair for us to hold them up as models externally as well. I think it means more as an organization when you put your money where your mouth is, when you have guys who play the game well, who play it the right way and come through the system, [you] reward them if it makes sense.”
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